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Sunday, December 04, 2005

Of concern to educators in the digital age is the prevalence and impact of digital plagiarism. However, not only do digital tools such as the Internet make it easy for students to access the work of others, they also make it relatively easy for non-original work to be detected.

Here at International School Dhaka we have recently developed an 'Academic Honesty' protocol and aim to support students in their studies by making it very clear what is acceptable in terms of orginality of work. In conjunction with a citation system students need to know that they can use words and phrases not belonging to them but must acknowledge their source. We employ two tools to help teachers and students with citation and detecting non-original work.These are: